Can I PLEASE just have 13 minutes? 13 measly minutes to myself to listen to The Archers?

[PseudoBadger]

Come and enjoy awkward dinner parties galore!

WHY IS DAVID EATING IN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE??

Kernowal said way upthread that the RT says David will 'have a lot to take in' on Monday. I'm now guessing that means Jill gives him a triple helping of everything for breakfast and he will talk all the way through eating it.

I just love that Timothy Bentink is an actual Earl!

Yes Psuedo Vicky holds very Jane Austenish views on the "Big Smoke"

I always imagined David was a big burly lumbering man, looking a bit like the commedian Justin Edwards.

That would fit with the constant eating.

Isn't Jill having her op on Monday?

David's eating noises are possibly worse then Helen and rob making out.

she's had it, Gigondas

Agree Gigondas re the eating noises.
Also Roooth seems to be adopting David's enthusiasm/orgasms over Jill's food.

"Aw Jill - sausages as well!!"

there was a bloggy thing about David's eating noises recently - doesn't he actually eat bits of banana?? or something???

anyway I reckon, like with "hello, you two!", the more people comment the more the SWs do it - they are such teases

\link{http://timbentinck.blogspot.co.uk/\Earl Tim's very own blog}

it was Bakewell tart! (I got the first 2 letters right anyway...)

he never gets his own food - it's always brought to him. mind you, wasn't it last time he tried cooking (spag bol?) that ruth nearly had an affair

(may have got cause and effect muddled there )

probably not, Willie

he hasn't made spag bol on the air again to my recollection!

that's an interesting blog post. i don't actually think it makes for awful radio, but it is something that puts me off the character a bit iyswim

I love "hello you two" and Joe's helpful "hello david archer, hello ruth archer"
The fact Brian, David, Tom, Tony et al always ask if the females can make them coffee drives me mad. "any chance of a cup of coffee?" FGS put the kettle on at least!

The wildly over-enthusiastic responses to Jill's probably quite average food, plus the 'Je t'aime' style heavy orgasmic moaning, implies that Rooooth's everyday fare is even more terrible than we think.

Did anyone else feel their heart sink at the return of Vickoi? I'd forgotten just how appalling she is in the interval of blessed peace while she was away, or at least silent.

Thanks for the blog link TheOneWith i thought he sounded good esp. the open letter to Gove I'm glad someone is saying things like that to the intellectual in charge of Education ffs.

puggle it is a personal bugbear of mine that no one is ever offered a cup of tea in Ambridge; it's always coffee.

As a total tea Jenny, I find this really annoying/unrealistic

I'm sure I've heard tea brewing before now.

Tim is quite right about the scoffing... at lambing time he's inside to get food inside him ASAP so it would sound odd if he didn't make eaty noises. He's also spot on with that letter to Gove.

It was David's domestic dinosaurusness that got me into hot water on the other Archers forum.

Mmm... I think Alan retains some nasty, northern tea-drinking ways.

And I can't believe Joe has ever let anything as new and fancy as coffee pass his lips. But I can't think of anyone else. Even Mike would have had it bred out of him by Vicky.

Well spotted B!

Blimey, I thought I'd read up to page 5 yesterday evening, then find we're at page 9 already today!

My thoughts on Ruth, and cos I haven't got beyond p6 it may not be an actual original thought. But ....
maybe her delay whilst supermarket shopping the other day was that she was at Borchester Gen having a scan and came back looking pale cos she'd had bad news. if she's going to tell Daveed something on Sunday, then she must know something by now. Of course it could just be something like she's decided to see the GP as she doesn't feel right.

Another less bad option. A friend had her first ever episode of depression in early 40s. It was pout down to being in early menopause and she has done well on HRT (not always a good idea for a woman who's had breast cancer though) and antidepressants and is now getting on with her busy life. Being extra-tired, snappy, tearful, etc could be something 'simple' like that. I hope so.

Now jumped to page 9! I will read back tho0ugh. Even Ian asked jenny to make him teas, but could be just a courtesy thing in a MIL's kitchen. I'm hoiking my warm bison, hope you all are too. Yours not mine though. I think Jill's op is done. Was last Monday and uneventful, so far .....

Do any of you know when the bison 'lambing' season might be? and do they need milking? Just asking.

no idea re calving (?) / milking of bison, but you can get lovely warm soft yarn from them - quite expensive

I think Tom could do worse than look at the market for bison burgers